CVE-2026-120040
7.5, highWardee Mail logging & Catcher Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability
- CVSS
- 7.5, high high CVSS v3.1
- EPSS, next 30 days
- 0.3% higher than 20.7% of scored CVEs
- Exploitation
- No public evidence
- Published
- 31 Oct 2026yesterday
Description
The Mail logging & Catcher plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.0 via the 'message' parameter. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to extract valid administrator password-reset keys from stored email logs and complete the WordPress password-reset flow to escalate privileges to administrator. Exploitation requires an administrator to have previously configured the plugin's default_view_role setting to a capability held by low-privileged users such as 'read'; on an untouched install the default of 'manage_options' restricts log access to administrators only.
Details
- Vendor
- Wardee
- Product
- Mail logging & Catcher
- Weakness
- CWE-269 (opens in a new tab)
- Status
- Received
- Updated
- 31 Oct 2026
- Assigner
- security@wordfence.com
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References 7
Other references 7
- github.com /JWardee/wp-mail-catcher/releases/tag/v2.3.0 (opens in a new tab)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/wp-mail-catcher/tags/2.2.0/src/Bootstrap.php#L101 (opens in a new tab)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/wp-mail-catcher/tags/2.2.0/src/Bootstrap.php#L259 (opens in a new tab)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/wp-mail-catcher/tags/2.2.0/src/Loggers/WpMail.php#L42 (opens in a new tab)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/wp-mail-catcher/tags/2.2.0/src/Views/HtmlMessage.php#L9 (opens in a new tab)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/wp-mail-catcher/tags/2.2.0/src/Views/TextMessage.php#L10 (opens in a new tab)
- wordfence.com /threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/599e46ed-a71c-41d1-839f-6bb76808a58f?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.
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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 1 Nov 2026, not the live upstream state.